Years of abuse ended in murder of boy, 3

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A BULLY who subjected his girlfriend’s three-year-old mixed-race son to sustained racist abuse before finally murdering him was under Probation Service supervision at the time.

Nicholas Halling, 36, of Dunstable, Bedfordshire, who had convictions stretching back 25 years, made Deraye Lewis’s life intolerable. He referred to him as “black bastard” and even wrote the word “nigger” in felt pen on the boy, who was forced to repeat it back to him “like a terrified parrot”.

When the toddler was taken to hospital on January 1 last year, already dead from internal injuries, medical examiners found 73 marks on his body,